News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

disneyC97

disneyC97

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Pretty sure the Polynesian had a health club in the early years - along with a beauty salon and the kids club and an arcade (not to mention an additional restaurant and the luau).
 
mysto

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imagineer97 said:
My first visit to this thread in a while, and I just saw the pictures. This is so ugly. There's nothing they could put on the exterior of this tower that is going to make it blend in with the Poly's aesthetic. It's far too dense, where the old Poly buildings exude the feeling of beachside bungalows. It's like a 9x13 cookie cake versus a plate of cookies.
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The tower is nearly complete in spite of appearances. They have 300000 sqft of duct tape with a bamboo print on it. Once they've spent a week or so applying that it'll be fully themed. Seamless. Romancing the Stone roleplay weekends start Oct 1!
 
Vegas Disney Fan

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I love the renderings of the new tower, it’s just in the wrong place.

It looks like they took the blueprints from one of the Reflections buildings, made a couple tiny adjustments, and just plopped it down next to Polynesian, it’s not the worst fit but it could be a lot better, long story short it looks like it was designed for a different location.
 
pdude81

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disneyC97 said:
Pretty sure the Polynesian had a health club in the early years - along with a beauty salon and the kids club and an arcade (not to mention an additional restaurant and the luau).
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MagicRat

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Again, I don’t know what the complaining is about. The tower fits in just fine and people are getting another deluxe resort to eat, drink and sleep. It will also have very nice amenities. For those who are manufacturing outrage from their mom’s basement it is currently the grey tower above the wedding pavilion or if you do not know where that is, to the extreme right. Yeah it’s a real eyesore! I can’t even imagine how it will look from MK which is twice as far as the picture taken from the GF BPK balcony. It will even be more horrific to the two Polynesian row houses that actually face towards the new tower. My god the horror.
 
networkpro

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MagicRat said:
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Again, I don’t know what the complaining is about. The tower fits in just fine and people are getting another deluxe resort to eat, drink and sleep. It will also have very nice amenities. For those who are manufacturing outrage from their mom’s basement it is currently the grey tower above the wedding pavilion or if you do not know where that is, to the extreme right. Yeah it’s a real eyesore! I can’t even imagine how it will look from MK which is twice as far as the picture taken from the GF BPK balcony. It will even be more horrific to the two Polynesian row houses that actually face towards the new tower. My god the horror.
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The whole area around the Poly was an eyesore when it opened... there was just grass and a few bushes.
 
networkpro

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MagicRat said:
I am not sure I understand the point but yes all of Disney World was an eyesore too before Walt decided to build on it, the area was a swamp.
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Not my point, it literally took decades for the landscaping to grow to the point where it complemented and softened the appearance of the resort after it opened. The space around the buildings literally was flat and sandy grass. Across the street was a wall of pine trees.
 
MagicRat

MagicRat

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networkpro said:
Not my point, it literally took decades for the landscaping to grow to the point where it complemented and softened the appearance of the resort after it opened. The space around the buildings literally was flat and sandy grass. Across the street was a wall of pine trees.
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Newsflash water is wet….pipe down Francis in five decades you will appreciate this building too!
 
Bocabear

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Aulani Tower without any of the Polynesian architectural fluorishes... just modern... but look there is a wood product used here and there...so it fits! lol
It would not have been difficult to have actually designed the building to architecturally match the existing resort.
"Can't we just get a regular motel with no thematic design and pay astronomical prices?" said no one ever....
The design and atmosphere has always been the point of these resorts and the "Disney Difference"...
 
Ayla

Ayla

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DisneyDebRob said:
If there was no mention of the Poly..and the pictures did not show any buildings next to it I would have said that’s a nice Sheraton hotel. Where is that,Texas? Phoenix? That’s just horrible. Gone are the days of seemless theming and in are the days of just slap it up and don’t think of anything else.
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Not to mention, the hulking over the Wedding Pavilion. Ugh.
 
Bocabear

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Ayla said:
The problem is, the Poly does not look like Aulani. They aren't in any way similar. Aulani looks fine on its own, because everything was built to match.
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Ding Ding Ding!! This!
Good architecture and design would have had it blending into it's environment...especially into this established and beloved resort...surely they thought of that... And I wonder what the argument was for absolutely not matching the existing resort?
 

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